Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

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There is no amount of beer in the world...

Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

shanrick:Because People in power are Stupid: [imgick.oregonlive.com image 620x380]

There is no amount of beer in the world...

Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

Do you really go to this website expecting enlightening debate performed in a civilized manner?

shanrick:Because People in power are Stupid: [imgick.oregonlive.com image 620x380]

There is no amount of beer in the world...

Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

shanrick:Because People in power are Stupid: [imgick.oregonlive.com image 620x380]

There is no amount of beer in the world...

Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

shanrick:Because People in power are Stupid: [imgick.oregonlive.com image 620x380]

There is no amount of beer in the world...

Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

Are you new here? Just curious... not snarking. I only ask because you seemed to take great offense at one of the more.. er.. tame judgments I've seen in these parts.

Jeep2011:The crazy just oozes out of that woman. And she is damn ugly too. She looks like the butt end of a monkey mated with a mangy dog. She is so ugly my face hurts.

/Am I doin it right?

She's so ugly my dick just fell off, crawled away to a secluded place in the forest and died of a broken heart and mind. She looks like the hemorrhoidal prolapsed anus of a diseased rodent. She's so ugly I just committed suicide by cop.

shanrick:Because People in power are Stupid: [imgick.oregonlive.com image 620x380]

There is no amount of beer in the world...

Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

HotWingAgenda:So what happened to this woman's kids? Are they in Canada? Do they get brought back here? Charged with aiding and abetting her run from the law?

Keating was out on bail when she stopped contacting her attorney who was worried that she had fled, state police said. A warrant was issued for her arrest, police said. Her family never reported her missing.

shanrickOh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

While I am moderately civilized, if one is ugly enough to ridicule, they should consider that a compliment that I've taken time out of my busy day to inform them just how ugly they are.

shanrick:Because People in power are Stupid: [imgick.oregonlive.com image 620x380]

There is no amount of beer in the world...

Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

Oh, jeez, we're sorry. We didn't know she was your twin sister. Next time we'll check profiles before we post disparaging remarks.

shanrick:Because People in power are Stupid: [imgick.oregonlive.com image 620x380]

There is no amount of beer in the world...

Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

Fade2black:You'd think if she had any sort of conscious at all she would've at least tried to clean up her life and do some good after that.

Maybe - or maybe not. Apparently not. Maybe the guilt just ate away at her and she kept drinking to escape.

And maybe she wasn't so much bragging as confiding/confessing in a drunken state.

I'm just speculating. Alcohol is a hell of a drug. She would have gotten away with it too if she didn't get drunk and start blabbing about it.

I wonder what I would do if some drunk 50-something year old woman in a bar started telling me she killed someone in a DUI 15 years ago. I'd probably just think she was nuts and ignore her unless she really pressed the issue.

For every "hopeless" drunk that sees the light and turns their life around there are probably a dozen more who just crawl into a bottle and tries to hide.

I would be surprised if she didn't feel any guilt over it and even more so if that didn't contribute to her continuing to drink even more.

Is prison meant to punish, reform or protect us from those who pose a risk or a combination? As far as we know, while she may have posed a risk since then she didn't actually cause any harm and chronic alcoholism can be its own punishment so maybe she only hurt herself by not giving herself the opportunity to be reformed.

I was watching Democracy Now last night and they were talking about The Act of Killing, which is a documentary about Cambodia. They showed a scene interviewing some guy who killed "hundreds if not thousands" of people with his own hands. He seemed somewhat unemotional about it although he did indicate he felt some guilt. He said he danced, listened to music, drank, smoked pot and did ecstasy to alleviate that guilt. He even demonstrated one of the techniques they used to kill people so as to minimize the blood.

Why do I bring that up? Well, for one it helps to put things into perspective. This woman who fled to Canada probably didn't mean to kill anyone and as evil as drunk driving may be, it pales in comparison to this guy in Cambodia. That doesn't excuse what she did, but she was probably a serious alcoholic already when she caused a fatal accident at 11 AM on a Sunday morning

She may have been drunk every second of every day since she fled, but I can't imagine it was all that good of a ride.

shanrick:Because People in power are Stupid: [imgick.oregonlive.com image 620x380]

There is no amount of beer in the world...

Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

Well done Sir or Madam, You even got some 'are you new here responses'. What do you do with stupid people on your line? Do you just throw them back?

shanrick:Because People in power are Stupid: [imgick.oregonlive.com image 620x380]

There is no amount of beer in the world...

Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

Jabberwookiee:Jeep2011: The crazy just oozes out of that woman. And she is damn ugly too. She looks like the butt end of a monkey mated with a mangy dog. She is so ugly my face hurts.

/Am I doin it right?

She's so ugly my dick just fell off, crawled away to a secluded place in the forest and died of a broken heart and mind. She looks like the hemorrhoidal prolapsed anus of a diseased rodent. She's so ugly I just committed suicide by cop.

MadMattressMack:shanrick: Because People in power are Stupid: [imgick.oregonlive.com image 620x380]

There is no amount of beer in the world...

Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

Do you really go to this website expecting enlightening debate performed in a civilized manner?

Oh for fark's sake. Of course shanrick's right, it would be nice if the majority of us acted like mature adults most of the time. OTOH having been here a while I know that's too much to expect of the vast majority of you people: I don't expect more than poo-flinging from such keyboarding baboons, which is fine with me because this is one of the few places on the Net where I can shine by comparison just by typing "Bite me!"

And for the record this alleged perp ain't that bad for a 54 year old Caucasian North American -- I've done worse when we both were younger. It's high standards like those you boys pretend to that keep the frats in business: you hope that after a few box-wine enemas the older bros will show you where they keep the roofies. (At least you don't expect any girl prettier than Leno to get near you on your personal merits alone.)

As for the person in TFA and the headline, the term is "stupidity." But then this IS Fark, so...

MadMattressMack:shanrick: Because People in power are Stupid: [imgick.oregonlive.com image 620x380]

There is no amount of beer in the world...

Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

Do you really go to this website expecting enlightening debate performed in a civilized manner?

Oh for fark sake, what is the matter with you people? You make fun of someone because of their looks and you think that that's okay? What kind of website is this where people come to make cruel jokes about other peoples looks. Grow up people!

Do you really go to this website expecting enlightening debate performed in a civilized manner?

Actually, this is the only website I've seen where the comments sometimes indicate the posters have some intelligence. What disappoints me in this case is that the rude comments are about the woman's looks - not about how stupid she is to talk about killing someone or even driving drunk to begin with. The woman is a drunk - ALL drunks get ugly after a few years.

AHEM. I was getting ugly before I took to drink at age 42. (When I started drinking every day; I didn't stop caring how much I drank every day for another 5 years.) Granted I'm still something of a lightweight, my usual daily ethanol intake doesn't go over 50 mL (the amount of alcohol in 200 mL of 80 proof bourbon, e.g.) and I can get by on one standard drink an evening if it's necessary, but the current US standards say I'm a problematic drinker. Hooray! Another milestone in my career as an adult, albeit one based solely on age.

I feel like I'm in my 39th year of being 12, but I look like slightly chubby death warmed over. Since it's simply not feasible to change my outside to match my inside, maybe I can drink my way into an age-appropriate senility. That seems more likely than getting an 18 year old to move in.